🧑‍🎓 Bronte: Heathcliff & Cathy in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights #3: Inconsistencies in the text

In this third video in the series, I deconstruct Nelly's account of Heathcliff's arrival at Wuthering Heights and show that it is almost impossible for events to have occurred as described.

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[anthonytroisi]

I do not think too much attention should be paid to the logistics of Earnshaw's trip. Emily Bronte probably did not feel the rate of travel is important. Of greater interest is why Earnshaw would bring home a street urchin. Even if he was a charitable man, there were probably poor boys closer to home who would have benefited from Earnshaw's compassion. I always theorized that Heathcliff was Earnshaw's illegitimate son, the result of a liaison with a lower-class woman. If Heathcliff was eight when he entered the Earnshaw household, wouldn't he have some memory of his previous life?

[donovanmedieval]

Could there have been a coach in the next town?